The Astros picked up their first July win on July 3 and closed out the month with an 11-0 win over Baltimore on July 31. However, they only won four games in between resulting in a 6-18 record for the month, the worst in the major leagues. The Astro finished the month with a record […]

Texas Rangers ink Oswalt to one-year deal (via AFP) Roy Oswalt, a three-time Major League Baseball All-Star pitcher, has signed a one-year deal with the Texas Rangers, according to a posting on the team’s website. The 34-year-old right-hander is expected to make several starts with developmental-league teams before joining the Rangers, who lost starter…

I do not know where to begin, mainly because I cannot believe that it has come to an end. A week ago I put up a post saying how Phillies’ fans needed to get behind the Yankees to make the World Series in order to seal a remarkable and, by most franchise standards, historic season. […]

On my way in to work last evening, one of the talking heads on local sports talk radio insisted the 2011 Philadelphia Phillies have the best rotation he’s ever seen, and this before they’ve even thrown a pitch as a unit. Bringing Cliff Lee back to a threesome that includes two-time Cy Young Award winner […]

After a miserable start to the 2010 season, the Houston Astros made a mid-course correction in July.Â Astro icons Roy Oswalt and Lance Berkman were traded for 6 younger players and the Club made a modest recovery in the second half of the season with rookies manning four positions in most games.Â Catcher Jason Castro […]

October baseball is now a rite of passage in Philadelphia. No longer are Phillies fans left to wonder about â€œnext yearâ€ or suppose â€œwhat ifâ€ or try to convince themselves that they had better appreciate fall baseball because they may not see it again for awhile. No, not for the foreseeable future in this town. […]

In the final month of the Astros forgettable 2009 season, the Astros inexplicably swept the National League Champion Philadelphia Phillies in a 4 game series in Houston.Â The 2010 schedule also included a 4-game series with the Phillies, this time in Philadelphia in August.Â The result was the same as the Astros brought their brooms […]

Jay Gibbons has struck another harmonious chord for Independent Baseball with his splashy re-entrance into the major leagues with the Los Angeles Dodgers.Â A longtime Baltimore Orioles outfielder (2001-2007), the left-handed Gibbons erged from a brush with being named in the infamous Mitchell Report to start cleansing his reputation with the Long Island (NY) Ducks […]

The Houston Astros finished the month of July with 4 straight wins, outscoring the opposition 25-2.Â It was the first winning month for the Club with a record of 13-11.Â Most of the credit goes to the pitchers with the starters compiling a 2.54 ERA, the best in the league for the month.Â Brett Myers […]

The Cardinals hit the Big Apple yesterday. Â They saw the sites (Ryan Franklin went to the Statue of Liberty with his family, according to the official Cardinal Twitter feed),Â made some appearances (more on Albert Pujols in a bit) and picked up a half-game on the Reds when Milwaukee beat them 3-2. Â In other words, just […]

Is Strasburg’s looming debut next Tuesday more important for the future of the Nationals, or Roy Oswalt’s admission on Tuesday of this week, that he would accept a trade to Washington? The two are inextricably linked. Â Oswalt’s view that there are good things going on in Washington redounds to the excitement Strasburg is generating, but […]

Anyone who saw the first two games of the Cincinnati series last week and the Washington game on Monday would obviously answer yes. The Astros are on a pace to lose 108 games this year after never having lost 100 in their 48-year history. After getting in a hole with an 8-14 record in April, […]

The Houston Astros have started slowly for several years (9-13 in April, 2009 and 13-16 in 2008).Â However, the month of April, 2010 (8-14) was even worse.Â After the Club started 0-8, there was a brief ray of hope when the team went 8-2 in the next 10 games including a 3 game sweep of […]

Astro starter, Wandy Rodriguez, couldn’t find a pitch he could get past the St. Louis Cardinals’ all right handed batting order in the first inning and was rocked for 5 runs in a Monday game at Kissimmee..Â The big blows were a 2-run double by Ryan Ludwick and a 3-run homer by David Freese.Â After […]

A sun-drenched, record crowd of 7,020 fans saw the Houston AstrosÂ overcome a 4-0 deficit to defeat a New York Yankees split squad 8-6 in Kissimmee Saturday afternoon.Â The Yankees struck early against Brett Myers with a home run by Robinson Cano in the second inningÂ and two more runs in the third on a triple by […]

On a perfect day for baseball, the Boston Red Sox and Houston Astros showcasedÂ their ace pitchers beforeÂ a capacity crowd in Kissimmee.Â Roy Oswalt and Jon Lester each worked the first fourÂ innings with Oswalt departing with a 1-0 lead for the win.Â Oswalt focused on locating his fastball while Lester mixed in more off speed and […]